EnTable: Rewriting Web Data Sets as Accessible Tables

Steven Gardiner, Anthony Tomasic and John Zimmerman

Summary

Today, many data-driven web pages present information in a way that is difficult for blind and low vision users to navigate and to understand. EnTable addresses this challenge. It re-writes confusing and complicated template-based data sets as accessible tables. EnTable allows blind and low vision users to submit requests for pages they wish to access. The system then employs sighted informants to markup the desired page with semantic information, allowing the page to be re-written using straightforward <table/> tags. Screen reader users who browse the web using the EnTable browser extension can report data sets that are confusing, and utilize data sets re-written with the <table/> tag based on their own requests or on the requests of other users.